VA

VA, Va and variants may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
• Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
• Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
• Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
• Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc. role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate sound of analog synthesisers using DSP techniques
• Visual arts
• Voice actor, an actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media

Places

• Vä, Sweden, a village in the municipality of Kristianstad
• Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
• Virginia, United States postal abbreviation

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

• VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
• VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems"), a computer builder, software publisher, and online media company that eventually became Geeknet
• V Australia (IATA airline designator VA)
• Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
• Virgin Australia (IATA airline designator VA)

Government agencies

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans Administration, a department of the US government
  • Veterans Health Administration, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs

Other organizations

• Vetenskap & Allmänhet, a Swedish scientific organisation
• Vermont Academy, a boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
• Vibrant Academy, a coaching institute in Kota, Rajasthan
• Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, as indicated by postnominal letters
• Virtual airline (hobby), a dedicated hobby organization that uses flight simulation to model the operations of an airline

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
• Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception
• Vascular anomaly, in medicine
• Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug

Computing

• .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Vatican
• Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructure
• Virtual address, a computer memory location in Virtual address space
• Vertical alignment, technology of the modern LCDs Monitor.

Mathematics

• Vertex algebra
• Vertical asymptote, in mathematics

Other uses in science and technology

• Air speed in aviation associated with design maneuvering speed (Official abbreviation in FAR and CS requirements)
• Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, dimensionally equivalent to the watt
• Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle
• Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system

Other uses

• Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
• Value added, in economics, additional value created at a given stage of production, marketing or other process
• Variable annuity, a financial instrument
• Vice admiral, a military rank
• Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
• Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
• An amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"